21 Quotes by Goose Gossage

In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.

When I played, Old-Timers Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one of the great Yankees... It was an out-of-body experience.

I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing.

I'd like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.

Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

There is nobody that wants to win more than George Steinbrenner.

These messages that we are sending our kids and the kind of lives people lead today so superficial it seems, just a lot of phony stuff. What does it mean when you really stop and think about it's kind of stupid.

Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned on that baseball field. The perseverance, the hard work that it takes, dealing with failure.

The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?